Player Dossier

2024-2025

Memphis

Makari Bodiford

RB • 5'11" • 222 lbs • Marietta, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Makari Bodiford leans balanced backfield option traits and 22.2 efficiency.

Usage / Role

8%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

34

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

45

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Memphis

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Snapshot

Career Teams
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Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Memphis
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Charlotte

Player Story

Makari Bodiford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Marietta, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with Memphis. The clearest part of Makari Bodiford's career was his backfield work:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8522

Walton · Marietta, GA

Committed To
Memphis
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Makari Bodiford, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Memphis. Makari Bodiford leans balanced backfield option traits and 22.2 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
173
Rushing yards
170
Receiving yards
3
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Makari Bodiford quick answers

Latest team and position
Memphis · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
173
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 9 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Memphis
Top game
Charlotte
Recruit profile
3-star · Walton · Memphis
High school pipeline
Walton · 34 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 21 · Sophomore
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
64 scrimmage yards · RB 518th (top 71%) · American Athletic 175th (top 61%) · National 1,695th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMemphis51091063149.5
2025 Regular SeasonMemphis464640336.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Memphis to Kansas StateG5/FCS to P477.5Jan 21, 2026

Makari Bodiford played RB for Memphis. Across 2 tracked seasons, Makari Bodiford recorded 170 rushing yards, 3 receiving yards, and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Memphis.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Memphis paired 109 primary output with 58.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 22.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Georgia State

Win with 42 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Memphis

Games

4

Scrimmage Yards / G

16

Efficiency

22.2

Usage

9.6

Consistency

38.5

Best Game by takeover score

Georgia State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Chattanooga: 3. Georgia State: 42. Troy: 18. Arkansas: 1

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Chattanooga: 3 by 10.4. Georgia State: 12 by 36.5. Troy: 6 by 31.3. Arkansas: 1 by 10.4

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

First Half22.5 · Games = 2 · +13 vs Second Half
Second Half9.5 · Games = 2 · -13 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Georgia State

Best efficiency game

36.5 vs Georgia State

Result
Sat 9/20vs ArkansasW 32-3111101
Sat 9/13@ TroyW 28-7618313
Sat 9/6@ Georgia State2+ TDW 38-1612423.5023.5
Sat 8/30vs ChattanoogaW 45-1033101

Player Story

Makari Bodiford story

Makari Bodiford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Marietta, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with Memphis. The clearest part of Makari Bodiford's career was his backfield work: 170 rushing yards, 37 carries, 4 rushing touchdowns, and 3 receiving yards across 9 career games in the available record. His career also includes 3 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Makari Bodiford's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Memphis

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMemphis10958.15.3
2025 Regular SeasonMemphis6422.29.6-45

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Charlotte

Week 9 · W 33-28 · Conference game

Win with 76 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

74.4 takeover

76 scrimmage yards and 11.8 usage.

#2

@ No. 133 Georgia State

Week 2 · W 38-16

42

Scrimmage Yards

65.9 takeover

Win with 42 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

42 scrimmage yards and 21.4 usage.

#3

@ South Florida

Week 7 · W 21-3 · Conference game

12

Scrimmage Yards

40.2 takeover

Win with 12 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

12 scrimmage yards and 1.7 usage.

#4

@ No. 87 Troy

Week 3 · W 28-7

18

Scrimmage Yards

34 takeover

Win with 18 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

18 scrimmage yards and 9.7 usage.

#5

vs UAB

Week 12 · W 53-18 · Conference game

17

Scrimmage Yards

31.7 takeover

Win with 17 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

17 scrimmage yards and 4.8 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Memphis

109 primary output · 58.1 efficiency · 5.3 usage

49.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Memphis

36.7

64 primary · 22.2 efficiency · 9.6 usage

Milestones

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100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games